Chapter 6 (Skills)

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I woke up late the next morning, got up and dressed and looked in the mirror. The marks Nyx had given me were still there. I traced the light blue lines on my face and smiled, it wasn't a dream. I walked to the dining pavilion and sat next to Silena, trying to avoid the stares I was getting from everyone, obviously looking at the marks on my face. And then Chiron got up and pulled me to the side and asked, "Were in Hades did you get those marks? They are only given to the children of Nyx." He told me still in shock.

"Nyx did give me these Chiron, she claimed me, I'm her great, great granddaughter." I said looking into his eyes, he seemed distraught about something, I need you to come with me to consult the oracle." He told me pulling me to the big house.

Oracle, I thought, what was the oracle? As we went into the big house Chiron led me up the stairs into a room filled with a lot of weird stuff. I touched what looked like an old shield, and it fell and clattered to the floor, not one of my most brilliant moments. As I turned around I saw what looked like a mummy, but it was dressed as a... hippie?

As I stared something green started to come out of its mouth, freaking me the hell out for one thing, and making me fall flat on my butt. Then I listened, the oracle (I had pretty much figured out by then that must be it.) told me something, a sort of rhyme.

Nights love shall fight a fear

Along with one she will soon call dear

A battle ahead for a doubles power

Were one will spend their last mortal hours

And with that I was in a room with a mummy again, thinking, "what the hell?" as I walked out of the room.

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"So what did the Oracle say?" he asked as I came down the stairs, he seemed to really want to know.I repeated what the Oracle said and he seemed to think hard on it.

"Chiron!" shouted a voice from the distance; it was the boy I had seen earlier that week. The girl, who he was connected to, was not far behind him.

"Ah Percy, Annabeth, your here, I would like for you to meet Lillian Miller, Daughter of Aphrodite goddess of love, and kin to Nyx goddess of night." He said as their jaws dropped, well Percy's anyways, Annabeth obviously knew what the marks meant.

"Two lineages like that is pretty rare, I mean usually half-bloods marry other half bloods, then the blood should have dwindled, usually the Gods don't take interest in those children, except for the usual high grandma high grandpa visit. Nyx must have taken a liking to you. And with your mother being a goddess, her powers should be a bit more predominant, you'll probably have better fighting skills than most of your siblings." Annabeth said, smiling a little. I knew what she was talking about, I saw my siblings at sword practice and archery, warriors they were not.

"I guess I'll have to see about that one." I said, smirking.

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I walked up to practice range ready to start my training, I saw some of the kids from the other cabins sparing, getting ready for the big war I had heard about. I wondered if I really would be good with weapons like Annabeth had thought, well, only one way to find out.

I headed up to the armory and looked around, looking at each of the weapons, I grabbed a bow and arrow, starting towards the targets and some of the other kids stared at me as I got ready to shoot. I felt a certain power go through as I shot the arrow. I hit straight, a perfect bull's eye, I tried again, another bull's eye, arrow after arrow I hit perfectly, and all the other kids could do was stare, jaws dropped.

"What?" I asked them, I mean come on, were Aphrodite kids that bad at fighting? A kid from Dionysus cabin came up to me, I think his name was Pollux.

"How did you do that, I've only seen Apollo kids with that good of accuracy!" He shouted, amazed. I didn't know either, shooting arrows just felt right. May be it was Nyx, giving me a blessing of good archery.

"It could be my great, great grandmother Nyx's doing, I mean; she could be a good archer. Her influence could do this right?" I said, again jaws dropped, all I wanted to do was close them all. It was very rude to stare.

"How could you have figured that all out, you've only been here, what, five days?" Pollux said, wondering.

Okay, here's the thing. I have always been good at figuring things out, it wasn't all that hard, just take the clues add them up and you have the answer. That's how I figured it out about Apollo and Artemis so quickly, hello you have two kids who are shooting glowing arrows at a monster that probably weighs two tons, not to hard to figure out! Then with Chiron saying all the stuff about the camp, I had already met two of the gods. It wasn't goanna be too hard to handle that the camp for half-bloods was real.

"I'm a very good guesser." I told him as I went back to the armory to put back the bow and arrow, after that I went for a walk in the woods, not really knowing what I would find, or caring, I just wanted some time on my own to think, I deserved that much right?